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Let us suppose, further, that the same honours which now grace the illustrious Duke, or rather which are graced by him, with all the other munificent but well merited marks of public approbation, had been bestowed upon this imaginary rival, while he was himself passed over without notice or reward, in the fervour of gratitude for more recent services, in the interest excited by a newer name.
What, we ask, would, in this case, have been the judgment passed by posterity upon the British nation Causing it to make a strict comparison between their respective merits, the conclusion come to would have been this: that the one had met the exigencies of a great occasion with all the promptness, energy, and judg ment it could possibly require.
It would be said, however, that this could not possibly place that individual, as a General, in a rank superior

to the other, who, through a series of years, had prosecuted a war to a successful termination, under a combination of circumstances calling for every quality that enters into the idea of a great commander, which in him were found existing in the rarest combination.


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